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Church Of Scotland Manse, 4 Seafield Terrace, Portsoy

A Category B Listed Building in Portsoy, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.681 / 57°40'51"N

Longitude: -2.6945 / 2°41'40"W

OS Eastings: 358681

OS Northings: 865894

OS Grid: NJ586658

Mapcode National: GBR M8QF.69X

Mapcode Global: WH7KN.L63H

Plus Code: 9C9VM8J4+95

Entry Name: Church Of Scotland Manse, 4 Seafield Terrace, Portsoy

Listing Name: 4 Seafield Terrace, Church of Scotland Manse

Listing Date: 22 February 1972

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 386195

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40283

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200386195

Location: Portsoy

County: Aberdeenshire

Town: Portsoy

Electoral Ward: Banff and District

Traditional County: Banffshire

Tagged with: Manse

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Description

1844, additions circa 1870. 2-storey, 3-bay house. Pinned tooled rubble, tooled ashlar dressings. Centre entrance masked by circa 1870 gabled barge-boarded timber Gothic detailed porch with side entrance and pointed-arch decoratively lead-glazed lights. Canted (1870) window at left (E) with parapet, also added circa 1870. Plate glass glazing in ground floor windows, 12-pane in symmetrical lst floor fenestration all timber sash and case windows. Coped end stacks; flat skews; slate roof.

ENCLOSING WALLS: low coped wall (continuous with church) fronts manse; high rubble wall at E and N. Pedestrian entrance flanked by bullfaced rubble piers matching church gatepiers and with similar cast-iron gate.

Statement of Interest

Church and manse share south facing sloping site and are enclosed by continuous rubble wall. Porch and bay windows probably added in 1870 when the church was being reconstructed, perhaps designed by J Russell Mackenzie, Aberdeen.

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